St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-04
THE MOTHERS WORTH.
Rev, Sam Jones Announces That he Has
Received Telegram Calling Him
to His Wife's Bedside,
And breaches Pathetic Sermon to the
Ladies of Minneapolis Upon the
Mothers of the Land.
Touching Reference to the Pfous
Mothers of George Washington,
John Wesley and Others.
Bits of Advice Upon the Rearing of
Children Wives, Husbands and
Mothers-in-L Law.

church, Minneapolis, to listen to the morn
ing sermon. Sam Small who was to have
preached sat on the platform pale
though patient sufferer. He was too i'll to
talk, and Sam Jones preached in
his stead, taking the twenty-third
psalm as a text. The discourse was
strangely pathetic and beautiful, filled from
text to eXhortation with thai sincere piety
which no man can doubt. AT the close of
the sermon Mr.. Jones announced that he
had received telegram calling him TO the
bedside of his sick wife. He asked that
prayers might be offered for her recovery,
and so moved his audience that tears were
freely shed and scarcely a dry eye was in
the house.
JONES' LAST SERMON.
Yesterday afternoon the Exposition hall
was crowded by people anxious to hear
Sam Jones talk to the ladies on the duties
OF mOtheTS. The announcement of Mr..
Jones departure had spread rapidly over
the city, and this no doubt increased
the attendance. Every one who
has attended the meetings has
learned Of the affiiction which has
come upon Mr.. Jones in the illness of his
wife, with deep regret and all will hope for
her speedy recovery. The sermon yeSter-
day afternoon was strong plea for the
proper rearing of girls. The speaker talked
very plainly of the evils of pushing young
girls into society instead OF rearing them to
be loVeable, noble women. In the evening
Sam Small addressed a large assembly.
Sam Jones said in the afternoon:
This subject announced for this afternoon,
this service was to be especially for mothers.
] announced that there would be service on
Thursday for wives aid on Saturday for
daughters, but sad news from my own home
makes this the last service can be with you
Aud as we have mothers and wives and
charlottesville noblest, pureSt, best part of
Gods creatiOn-aS we have them all here
this afternoon, we may change the plan
somewhat and have word for each one in
season: that God may bless the message to
the good of every mother and every wife and
every daughter. L know what that term
mother means to boys heart. |
know what the term "wife" means to
a husbands heart. | know what the term
daughter means TO fathers home. But of
all the dear ones to which we owe so much,
we sing at best, what is home without
mother?' Some one said, on one occasion,
that if he could ''mother the world he could
save the world" Another said: 1.-THE hand
that rocks the cradle rules the world" IT
would save every American boy, / would first
give every American youth consecrated,
good mother. When | read the history of
King Josiah, a boy that grew up amid the
lcentious court, the Goddess and reckless
lives of those around him, into pure.
SWEET-sPIRITED, NOBLE, GRAND
king, and when | look over his life and his
-eREinonmenr can find no solution in the
fact that such man could grow up in such
an age except in the fact that King Josiah
had precious, good mother. And not only
as we turn over the pages of ancient history,
but as we come on down we see it is true.
Nero's mother Il bloody murdereSs, and
she gave 10 the world the most blood-thirsty
man the earth ever saw. Why, Byron's
mother was q brilliant, intellectual, proud
woman, and she gave 10 the world the most
intellectual autocrat and profiigate man the
world ever saw. George Washington's mother
was plain, sensible, ,common-sense woman and
she gave to the world the man we honor with
the title, THE Father of our Country" John
Wesley mother was pious, sweet-Spirited,
painstaking, good woman, and John Wesey's
mother gave TO the world one of the most re-
nOwned and useful men that history has ever
told us of. And so we might say OH all sides
the mother stamps the imprint of her own
character upon her children. ] noticed a
gathering OF mothers in q certain city some
cuss home training; they were there to
discuss the management of their
children. And in the meeting differ
ent mothers talked; one mother stood I'D and
said; Il believe we ought to begin the rigid
training Of our children in righteousness at 6
years of age" Another mother stood I'D and
said, Il believe we ought to begin with our
children at years of age Another mother
said, Il think we ought to begin at years of
age" Another mother said: Il think we
should not wait that long; we ought to begin
at years of age" And directly q good old
mother in Israel stood up and said: II tell
you when to begin; begin
TWENTY YEARS BEFORE
the birth OF the child, on its mother to get a
good mother, and then it will be trained in
a tn Id rirrlt
ness" Ofall the blessings that crowned a
humans life, nothing like precious mother.
i say to you candidly that if you lay the Bible
the means of grace preached us, and our
Sabbath scnool-all of these means of grace,
If you put them on this side of me and then
put my precious mother on the other side and
say, Nov, sir, take your choice, and ii you
want to do right and go to heaven, make
choice now between your mother and
all these otner means of grace" "
would turn my back on all of
these and put my arms around my mother S
neck, and then surely I'll be trained for God
and heaven. Nothing can make up to q boy
or girl what they lack, if they have not good
mother. care not what else your children
may be endowed with, care not what else
may be bestowed upon them, there is moth
ing in heaven or earth that can make up TO
TO your children what they have lost, if God
has not given them a good mother. The next
greatest blessing 10 guide my feet. the next
a concecrated wife, wife who
loves God more than she does the
world. The more your wife, my brother out
there, the more your wife loves God, the more
che loves you and the more she loves the
children OF your home. There can be no
grand depths of love on the part of wife and
husband if they have shut their hearts to the
great current of Gods love. and will not have
it poured in upon them l have often won--
dered where is the great storehouse OF Gods
music from which all the spheres are sup
Piled, all the birds are supplied, from which
all melodies and
ALL HARMONIES
come. Oh how sweetly all earth sings all
about us. l know not where the great
storehouse of Gods music is, and then
stop and l say: "Oh where is the store
house of Gods love- l know where that is;
that is the great heart of God and it gushes
out like the force and current of u river upon
weak and lost world. Oh, for love; love
ought to be the ruling passion Of a mothers
heart; the ruling passion of wlfe'S heart;
and home can never be made so dear as when
daughters give their hearts like the gush of a
river to mother and to father and loved ones
about them. Now, mother, along on this,
line want to talk to you, mother, to you,
wife, to you, daughter, just as would have
any consecrated man talk to my mother, if
she lived, or to my wife or girls. For after
all, sisters, whatever may be said on this oc-
casion shall be said in love and kindness; for,
as love my wife and daughters and the men,
DRY of my precious mother, so [ respect and
revere the name of mother wherever found,
the name Of wife or daughter, and we go into
this discussion with you under more mental
depression than have ever preached under
before. May God and the Holy Spirit
tighten the burdens of your home
and make your place of resi-
dence a glad place like the kingdom of
heaven. would say first what mother ought
to be. She ought TO pray and strive TO be
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